The Walking Dead 3.3: “Welcome To Stepford”
Hosted By Fashion and Entertainment Editor Joe Lamour
Happy Halloween, everyone! Let’s talk about eating brains.
This week, we were introduced to The Governor. His name warrants bolding, capitalization, and other fanfare because he’s clearly this season’s Big Bad: much less annoying, but way more insane than Shane. Funny how zombies were only the first season’s villain.
Even though the East Coast is a mess this week–and only one of us lives on the West Coast–almost everyone snuggled up to watch adults stab decaying people in the head. Fun!
Kiki Smith, Kenneth Hwynn, and Jeannie Chan (all New York City dwellers, mind you) and I had a zombie tete-à-tete-tete-à-tete. We also welcome Jenn Kim, a new tete–and a rather astute tete at that.
More zombie shenanigans under the cut!
* Also, pretty please, commenters, no graphic novel-related spoilers. I was researching Skyfall (admittedly, because the new Moneypenny is the first black Moneypenny, and that’s super.) But anyway, I clicked on a link at some point and read a spoiler that ruined my life. Don’t worry: the link is about the spoiling; it doesn’t list the spoiler right in the beginning, unlike Wikipedia. Seriously, I read it about twelve hours ago, and my face is still hot. Surely, you don’t want to do that to anyone else?
Toodaloo, You Two (And They haven’t Even Told Us Your Names Yet!)
Joe: It looks like those helicopters from the season finale made their way into the show, Kiki!
Kiki: Yes! Finally!! Was wondering when they were going to broach that subject again…
Ken: Need more backstory on the dudes in the ‘copter, honestly. They seem so clueless…anyone wanna bet it was the Governor’s crew that shot them down?
Joe: They probably have been in the barracks since this whole thing started. Which is actually the opposite of what the army should be doing…
Jeannie: I don’t know if it’s just the quality of my computer screen, this particular link I’m streaming from, but this opening scene with the army men is looking very low-quality, 70s. I’m getting an Apocalypse Now-ish vibe. (Or what I imagine that vibe to be since I have never seen that movie.)
Kiki: I’m only like 5 minutes into this episode…and I’m already irritated again by these supposed “slave” zombies. Especially right about when Michonne harnesses them like horses to a tree. It keeps getting weirder.
Joe: Cosign. She seems to have survived before Andrea, mostly by herself. Michonne definitely is portrayed as deeply hardened. Like, how telling is it that a pre-apocalypse person would have either recoiled in absolute horror at a man torn in two or at least made a slight gasp. It was like Michonne was looking at a park bench or something.
Jenn: It was totally weird and disconcerting to see, but also a somewhat fascinating look into Michonne’s psyche.
Ken: Andrea is already annoying me, and she hasn’t said a word yet.
Joe: To be honest, Rick has the same effect on me lately. More Michonne this season! In other minority-actors-who-have-actual-lines news, I think it’s an interesting choice, the sounds the actor playing the soldier was making after he turned…perhaps, because he was new and his lungs hadn’t started decomposing yet? Am I reading too much into this?
Kiki: Aaaannd now adding on to my previous comment…that issue was quickly resolved in the most brutal manner possible. Le sigh.
Jeannie: Couldn’t we have learned who they were before they were beheaded? Because then the swift manner–and the apparent ease with which it’s executed–would be so much more poignant. Gawrsh, do I have to write this show myself?!
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